
Quoting
adjusterjack
The answer to all that about the lease is this:
Everybody has camera phones these days. If you don't have one, buy a cheap digital camera and carry it with you so next time somebody puts a document in front of you that you have to sign you can photograph all the pages.
Or you can say:
"I see there is only one copy of this contract. Do you have another so we can both sign duplicates and I can take one with me? No? OK, then let's go someplace and make a duplicate before we sign. Oh, you don't want to do that? Well, sorry, we're leaving and we'll look elsewhere for somebody to do business with."
It's that simple.
PS: Having a digital camera is a good way to document the condition of a rental when you move in and when you move out.